Victoria County History

for simony, but presented jointly with John Hite. 40 In 1640 the Crown presented again 41 but by 1660 the Blakes had recovered the advowson. 42 Humphrey Blake in his will proved 1665 left it to his son Nathaniel (d.

Lawrence or Dyer family was engaged in the clothing trade in the later 16th and the 17th century, and the Blakes of Plainsfield in the early 17th. 36 A clothier was accused in 1631 of stretching his cloth and of

manor house. 48 In 1667 the Lees sold the manor to Francis Blake and his son William . 49 The Blakes were a London family; William, a woollen draper, may have been interested in the Witney blanket industry. His charitable

In 1835 Anne and her son Augustus conveyed it to William Ponsonby , lord of Pawlett Gaunts manor. 81 The Blakes ' share, which included responsibility for the chancel, 82 passed to Arnold Brown and his wife Hannah who sold

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Somerset Yard Gate . On the West side is a pretty handsome Court, with a Free-Stone Pavement, neatly kept, called Blakes Court, as built by Sir Richard Blake the Owner thereof. Then in the Strand is Swan Yard , a

city many are now discovered, having secret intelligence with the duke of Guise, for which they are committed and done: Blakes will suffer; some are fled, and cannot yet be found. Now the French faction is up in Italy and

levied at the Receipt importing the payment of the baronet fee of 1.095 l . each by Heneage Fetherston, of Blakes Ware, co. Herts. John Rowse, of Henham, co. Suff., and John Kyte, of Ebrington, co. Gloucester. Ibid , XIV.

British Newspapers 1600-1900

OFFENCES. GAVIN SCOTT.-At tie Glasgow Justiciary Circuit Court, Gavin Scott, whose case has recently excited such an inte- rest in the commercial community, was placed at the bar, on the charge of theft, breach of trust, and embezzlement, and

best qualities of the Eng- lish seaman. No one doubts that we owe to these Drakes, Hawkinses, and Frobishers, our Blakes, our Cooks, and our Nelsons. Mr Barrow has pointed out especially, in the case of his hero, the successful

Lord DaInlenly in the Stirling burghs. The Gibson Craigs of Edinburgh, the Argyleshire Campbells, the Bainms' of Greenock, and the Blakes of Aberdeen, have come forward in di- rect opposition to the Bairds, Dunlops, and Fordyces, although these latter parties

flOYAL LITERARY FUND.- R The SEVENTIETH ANNIVERSARY DINNER of the CORPORATION will taks place in Fraemasons' Hlall On WEDNESDAY NEXT, the 22nd of June- The Right Hon. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P. in the Chair. STDWARDSo: Itisbard Edward Arden, Esq.

Wednefday next. Ordered, That the Caufe wherein Thomas Moore is Moore againft Appellant, and Manus Blake and Mark Blake Efquires Blakes. are Refpondents, be heard by Counfel at&apos;the Bar on Wednefday next. Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of James

their Lordfhips Judgement was poftponed from Time &quot; to Time &apos;till the 19th Day of May laft, when it was &quot; difcovered Moore againft Blakes, ReÃÂ¬ fpondents PeÃÂ¬ tition to fuf- pend the giving of Judgement, referred to Appeal Comec:

19th Century British Pamphlets

always wrangling families of Doctor Bailly , and the lawyer Wardropea,-and the terribly proud and haughty fa¬ milies of the Blakes and Caprons,-with Talasiphron as a very efficient Marplot among them : All of them morally and phy¬ sically idlers,

mountain. But in Connemava, all things come to him who turns Protestant. "Well, Quigley is a herdsman of these notorious Blakes , and b»;ng thus a landlord's man, thought it would not be hard to convince a friendly bench of

by the castle-the ruined stronghold of the O'Flahertys, who ruled this country long ago, either better or worse than the Blakes , who have held it for some generations, and under whose care it has become a reproach to the

the Empire. (Cheers.) Wo believe that the Forsters and Chamberlains, the Salisburys and Carnarvons,-ay, and the Langevins and Chapleaus too,-the Blakes and Mackenzies, the Macdonalds and McCarthys (loud and prolonged applause) ; we believe that the 1,500 who with scarce